CONGRESS HAS THE CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY; BUSH DOESN’T
By Schuyler ThorpeAuthor and Political ActivistRegardless of what some people think about who has what in our branches of government, our President may be Commander-in-Chief, but Congress still calls the shots on whether they should continue funding this sad debacle of a war.
By attaching language, Congress is living up to the people’s demands that this war end, and end soon:
Not by some open-ended conflict with no end in sight.
That’s what the people of the United States of America wants. That’s what Congress is delivering. What Bush wants is more money from his
rubberstamping Congress–with absolute no regards to where the money comes from–just so long as he gets what he wants without regard to Congress or the people.
Why do you think Chuck Hagel called for Bush’s impeachment if he doesn’t
listen to the wishes of the people he’s supposed to represent or Congress?
This is one of the things that our Founding Fathers implemented in the creation of our country’s Constitution:
They saw the inherent problems one person ruling over one country would present, without one or two more branches to keep him in check!
And while the Constitution does keep separate the powers of both the executive branch and Congress separate, it doesn’t give Bush unlimited power to do with what he pleases–while
completely ignoring the people and Congress all at the same time.
This is not how our democracy was built upon.
Calling Bush on this critical matter means reigning in an out-of-control President who has so far had a complete
disregard for procedure, law, and the Constitution of the United States of America.
Not to mention the 300 million people inhabiting it.
If Bush doesn’t like being called on matters of state, he shouldn’t have run for President, now should he?
Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1@yahoo.comLabels: Congress, Constitution, disregard, law, people, President Bush, unlimited power
ADMINISTRATION HAS NO LEG TO STAND ON WITH SUBPOENAS
By Schuyler ThorpeAuthor and Political ActivistSince the inception of the US Constitution, Congress has had the constitutional
authority to issue subpoenas on any high-ranking official in the US government suspected of wrongdoing or illegal activities which unjustly profits or politically enhances another’s standing–and imperils the function of the standing administration, by no longer representing the will of the people.
Nixon tried to duck the subpoena issue during Watergate, and Clinton tried the same with the Monica Lewinsky affair. But in both cases, the Supreme Court stepped in and ruled that in both instances–the
government is not above the law.
It had to submit.
Naturally, Bush is trying anyways; claiming that the “act of issuing subpoenas against some of his administration’s highest-ranking officials is
unconstitutional and represents a deliberate attack on the Presidency.”
Unfortunately, Bush was never a student of political history, or otherwise he would’ve already
known that Congress is well within its rights in doing what it‘s done–seeing how he’s foot dragged his way through the matters of the US attorneys being fired long enough; by denying Congress and the people the
truth.
For the last 2 months, Bush has given out only butterball truths, misinformation, contradictions, and so many other distortions about what really went on with the 8 US attorneys being fired for other than “performance issues”, that Congress had no choice in the matter but to issue subpoenas.
In all respect, this is a perfectly
legal and constitutionally
appropriate action for Congress to undertake.
And despite some dwindling attacks by some Republicans in regards to this matter, the Democrats may finally uncover other truths in regards to the matters of government secrecy and the Iraq war–only because Bush no longer has a leg to stand on.
Of course, Bush will say he has a
trump card in regards to how he stacked the Supreme Court in his favor with conservatives willing to back him–and that may be true. But the court may be inclined not to bail the President out in this instance–seeing how politically
weakened he and his administration has become since the November elections.
Let’s hope that this remains true and the people will see that the judicial branch doesn’t serve one man loyally, but the interests of the people as a
whole.
Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1@yahoo.comLabels: Bill Clinton, Bush, Congress, Lewinsky affair, Nixon, politically weakened, subpoenas, Supreme Court, US attorneys, Watergate
DON’T GET TOO OVERLY EXCITED–U.S. HAS ONLY BOUGHT ITSELF TIME IN THIS TWO-FRONT WAR.
By Schuyler ThorpeAuthor and Political ActivistIt comes as no surprise that the security operation in Baghdad has lessened some of the impact and horrors of the raging 4-year-old Sunni-led insurgency.
But before any of you war supporters start popping those champagne corks, you might want to just hold off the celebrating permanently:
All this has done is bought the US-led coalition forces some time and breathing room.
The insurgency has gone to ground and laid low for the time being, calculating new attacks and new approaches to the security operation–and probing the whole thing for weaknesses. But it doesn’t mean that the insurgency has been defeated by any means.
Even the capture of Al-Qaeda of Iraq’s leader (supposedly captured–no one has actually confirmed this publicly), hasn’t lessened the daily car bombings, the violence, and the killing of Iraq’s vulnerable citizens.
Make no mistake about it:
This insurgency hasn’t been crushed. And it won’t be militarily–no matter how many troops Bush sends into Iraq.
And we won’t even be able to hold onto the said areas once things are in place. Because–like before–the insurgency will rise and strike either at will or elsewhere in Iraq; thus drawing away much needed security from other cities and even the capital itself.
While Bush and his cronies are crowing about this latest “success”–they are still dangerously short-sighted in the long term:
We still won’t win this war by force or playing it up as a victory
in the war against terror.What will win this war is one thing which Bush doesn’t have or won’t embrace willingly:
Diplomacy.
And while he thinks that the talks with Iran this month was still a win for the US, it proved that we have lost a lot of ground with the international community as a whole.
Instead of, “Sure, we’ll sign on board,” Iran has simply offered, “We’ll think about it and let you know the results.”
That in itself is a slap in the face for our long-standing foreign policy initiatives.
And it will be awhile before the nations of the world begin to trust the United States openly again.
A long time indeed…Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1@yahoo.comLabels: Al-Qaeda of Iraq, Bush, civil war, insurgency, Iran, Iraq, time, United States
WHICH SIDE ARE WE ON THESE DAYS? FANTASY OR REALITY?
By Schuyler ThorpeAuthor and Political ActivistIt doesn’t cease to amaze me. You would think that this endless war without a plan or exit strategy would curtail the government and military’s
rosy and
optimistic views on how this conflict is going–but it
hasn’t.
Curiously, it seems to have
magnified the symptoms drastically: Though we have daily bombings in Baghdad, with civilians and US soldiers dying pretty much every day, both the military and the government running this dog and pony show still
believes that they are making “progress”!
So I guess in this instance, we are in
fantasy mode–not reality.
Despite all the carnage going on, both apparatuses are operating under a
make-believe mentality that things are progressing regardless of the enormous loss of life done to both occupier and its
liberated populace.
Which of course, is making the mission in Iraq less definable and more complex. If the recent surge of troops (scheduled to be increased to 28,000) was supposed to have worked by now, it has
failed.
If the recent surge of troops was supposed to have stemmed the bombings and contain the violence, it has
failed.
That is reality. But to Bush and the military, that’s “progress.”
To my mind, this is the
worst application of military and federal intelligence in any war brought forth by the US since its inception over 200 years ago.
It is no wonder the chaos still goes on unimpeded! We are simply allowing this to happen because we got a bunch of amateurs in both sects of command operating under the mentality of a
retard!
This goes beyond anything which the civilized world would be able to understand. And quite frankly, this conflict is creating more instability by the day, than it could possibly do in the exact opposite.
And despite Bush’s claims to progress with Malaki’s government, there hasn’t been at all. Some half-hearted gestures from his side, but in reality, he’s allowed this to go on for far too long.
The Iraqi people are clamoring and
demanding that he does something, but he
can’t.
However, Bush will still call it “progress” no matter what. The Iraqi security forces are unable to halt the violence. Stop the insurgency, stop the Shiite militias.
And neither can ours.
So in effect, what we are dealing with here is something we all call
reality.
But to the Bush administration and the US military, it’s called
fantasy
“progress”.
Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1@yahoo.comLabels: Bush, chaos, fantasy, Iraq, Malaki, reality, troop surge
